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Post by sandypine on Sept 8, 2023 18:19:34 GMT
UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. SG/SM/21926 6 SEPTEMBER 2023 Climate Breakdown Has Begun with Hottest Summer on Record, Secretary-General Warns, Calling on Leaders to ‘Turn Up the Heat Now’ for Climate Solutions The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today: The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting. Our planet has just endured a season of simmering — the hottest summer on record. Climate breakdown has begun. Scientists have long warned what our fossil fuel addiction will unleash. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope with extreme weather events hitting every corner of the planet. Surging temperatures demand a surge in action. Leaders must turn up the heat now for climate solutions. We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos — and we don’t have a moment to lose. Source: press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21926.doc.htm |
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Post by sheepy on Sept 8, 2023 19:57:44 GMT
Well, I must admit I have really enjoyed this week after a dismal summer, windy raining and often very chilly. But don't let that bother anyone, this is your opportunity after all the UK hasn't given many this year.
I could be suffering the effects of sad, because warm sunny days seem to cheer me up somewhat.
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Post by dodgydave on Sept 9, 2023 0:17:36 GMT
Well, I must admit I have really enjoyed this week after a dismal summer, windy raining and often very chilly. But don't let that bother anyone, this is your opportunity after all the UK hasn't given many this year. I could be suffering the effects of sad, because warm sunny days seem to cheer me up somewhat. Yes July and August were crap, but it literally didn't rain for four weeks during May / June and it was hot hot hot... is your memory that bad? lol. I remember being pissed off because I'd spent £3k on a Med cruise and we already had cracking sun tans before we got on the boat. |
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Post by dodgydave on Sept 9, 2023 0:26:39 GMT
I was thinking about the "climate emergency" the other day and I have decided that I just don't care. I am not denying it, I just don't care lol.
Let's face it 75% of the UK population are going to die because they are fat fuckers. If people cannot even take responsibility for their own bodies, then there is no hope for something as abstract as climate change lol.
We are all going to die anyway, and the human race will probably be extinct in the blink of an eye on a cosmic time scale.
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Post by sheepy on Sept 9, 2023 6:39:41 GMT
Well, I must admit I have really enjoyed this week after a dismal summer, windy raining and often very chilly. But don't let that bother anyone, this is your opportunity after all the UK hasn't given many this year. I could be suffering the effects of sad, because warm sunny days seem to cheer me up somewhat. Yes July and August were crap, but it literally didn't rain for four weeks during May / June and it was hot hot hot... is your memory that bad? lol. I remember being pissed off because I'd spent £3k on a Med cruise and we already had cracking sun tans before we got on the boat. Well we certainly didn't have a great May here and we did have a few nice days in June, although the edge taken off by the wind, I remember thinking at the time, when they were advertising it as hot,hot,hot I must be living in a micro climate that the rest of the country has missed out on. |
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Post by steppenwolf on Sept 9, 2023 7:02:37 GMT
There's a notable lack of scientific language in Guterres's statement - just an appeal to people's emotions.
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Post by zanygame on Sept 9, 2023 11:05:47 GMT
I was thinking about the "climate emergency" the other day and I have decided that I just don't care. I am not denying it, I just don't care lol. Let's face it 75% of the UK population are going to die because they are fat fuckers. If people cannot even take responsibility for their own bodies, then there is no hope for something as abstract as climate change lol. We are all going to die anyway, and the human race will probably be extinct in the blink of an eye on a cosmic time scale. Understand your feelings Dave. Unfortunately its always been the case that the few intelligent humans have to drag the Neanderthals along to keep us all alive. Just look how many safety features we have to pay for because some humans are so stupid. So here we are fighting world destroying climate change and still the stupid buggers would rather have a second holiday than find the money for net zero. London had to have Cholera before they cleaned the sewage Then thousands dying of lung disease before they banned coal fires By all accounts we ought to be extinct. |
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Post by zanygame on Sept 9, 2023 11:07:58 GMT
There's a notable lack of scientific language in Guterres's statement - just an appeal to people's emotions. The public aren't interested in data, they want broad statements and clear leadership. Look how easily they are fooled by a bunch of bloggers claiming it was hotter 400,000 years ago. Sigh. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2023 11:10:42 GMT
There's a notable lack of scientific language in Guterres's statement - just an appeal to people's emotions. The public aren't interested in data, they want broad statements and clear leadership. I must have missed that meeting. |
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Post by zanygame on Sept 9, 2023 11:18:20 GMT
The public aren't interested in data, they want broad statements and clear leadership. I must have missed that meeting. Almost certainly |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2023 11:20:50 GMT
Please put it down to your opinion.
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Post by zanygame on Sept 9, 2023 12:17:33 GMT
Please put it down to your opinion. Will do. Evidence based opinion of course  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2023 12:20:23 GMT
You are in communication with members of the public, so consider that evidence to counter your claims. I am not disagreeing that there is a chunk of the population who are driven by their feelies, but I prefer to start with absolute respect for the indivudual unless given a reason not to. The public is made up of individuals.
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Post by zanygame on Sept 9, 2023 12:36:41 GMT
You are in communication with members of the public, so consider that evidence to counter your claims. I am not disagreeing that there is a chunk of the population who are driven by their feelies, but I prefer to start with absolute respect for the indivudual unless given a reason not to. The public is made up of individuals. Less driven by their feelings, more too busy to study the science that backs up the claims. Ask most folks if they think the warming of Greenland is causing the Jet stream to buckle and they'll just shrug. Nothing wrong with that, we can't be experts on everything, no one has the time. Its why we have specialists making the right decisions for us. |
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Post by Dan Dare on Sept 9, 2023 12:58:22 GMT
Is it possible that, when making its assessment of the state of climate change, the UN is taking into account current and anticipated conditions in the places where most of the global population live and not remote and inconsequential backwaters like the British Isles?
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